Regional Collective Action

To Achieve:

By:

Requiring:

Coordination

Open consultation and access to information; and coordinated application of shared, best-practice norms and standards.

Establishing and managing agreed processes that facilitate regional dialogue and access to (and use of) information.

Voluntary consultations and agreements; possible resource sharing.

Cooperation

An effective and strengthened voice in protecting and sustainably harnessing the region’s physical, social and cultural assets for the benefit of all.

Developing and committing to coordinated regional or sub-regional policies and strategies.

Voluntary agreement to modes of regional cooperation; services are mainly funded and delivered nationally.

Collaboration

Achievement of economies of scale and equitable benefits that cannot be achieved nationally.

Delivering regional public goods and pooled services.

Voluntary agreement to modes of regional collaboration; national governments are freed from daily management of these priorities.

Harmonisation

Achievement of shared institutional and/or legal objectives.

Entering into specific regional or sub-regional commitments to common policies, regulations, standards and/or processes.

Legally binding arrangements, including commitment to national resource allocation; each country free to amend their internal laws/ requirements to meet the shared regional objectives.

Economic Integration

Greater economic prosperity founded on regional economic integration and sustainability and the

equitable distribution of benefits and costs.

Lowering physical and technical market barriers to enable freer movement of people and goods within and among countries.

Legally binding arrangements, including commitment to national resource allocation; each country commits to amending their internal laws

/ requirements to meet the shared regional objectives.

Administrative

/ Legal / Institutional Integration

A secure and well governed Pacific region pledged to upholding regional values.

Agreeing to common rules, standards and institutions to foster and sustain integration.

Legally binding arrangements, including commitment to national resource allocation and to operating within regionally mandated requirements.